| U.S.
Congress |
| |
Barbara Boxer (D)*
Dianne Feinstein (D)*
|
U.S.
Senator
U.S. Senator |
1993-present
1992-present |
| |
Feinstein
initially won a special election to fill a vacancy caused by a
resignation; that seat had been filled temporarily by appointment.
She was subsequently re-elected. |
| |
Jackie Speier (D) |
U.S.
Representative |
2008-present |
| |
Speier
won a special election to fill a vacancy caused by death . |
| |
Laura Richardson (D) |
U.S.
Representative |
2007-present |
| |
Richardson
won a special election to fill a vacancy caused by death . |
| |
Doris
Matsui (D) |
U.S.
Representative |
2005-present |
| |
Matsui
won a special election to fill a vacancy caused by the death
of her husband . |
| |
Linda Sanchez (D)
Susan A. Davis (D)
Jane Harman (D)
Hilda Solis (D)
Diane E. Watson (D) |
U.S. Representative
U.S. Representative
U.S. Representative
U.S. Representative
U.S. Representative
|
2003-present
2001-present
2001-present;
1993-1999
2001-present
2001-present |
| |
Watson initially won a special election to
fill a vacancy caused by death. |
| |
Grace
Napolitano (D)
Lois Capps (D) |
U.S.
Representative
U.S. Representative |
1999-present
1998-present |
| |
Capps initially won a special election to fill vacancy caused
by the death of her husband. |
| |
Mary
Bono Mack (R) |
U.S.
Representative |
1998-present |
| |
Bono
initially won a special election to fill vacancy caused by death
of her husband. |
| |
Barbara
Lee (D) |
U.S.
Representative |
1998-present |
| |
Lee
initially won a special election to fill vacancy caused by resignation. |
| |
Loretta Sanchez (D)
Ellen Tauscher (D)
|
U.S.
Representative
U.S. Representative
|
1997-present
1997-present
|
| |
Zoe
Lofgren (D)
Anna Eshoo (D)
Lucille Roybal-Allard (D) |
U.S.
Representative
U.S. Representative
U.S. Representative |
1995-present
1993-present
1993-present |
| |
Roybal-Allard was the first Mexican-American woman elected
to Congress. |
| |
Lynn
C. Woolsey (D)
Maxine Waters (D)
Nancy Pelosi (D) |
U.S.
Representative
U.S. Representative
U.S. Representative |
1993-present
1991-present
1987-present |
| |
Pelosi
initially won a special election to fill a vacancy caused by death. |
| |
Juanita Millender-McDonald (D) |
U.S. Representative |
1996-2007 |
| |
Millender-McDonald
initially won a special election to fill a vacancy. |
| |
Andrea
Seastrand (R)
Lynn Schenk (D)
Barbara Boxer (D)
Sala Burton (D) |
U.S.
Representative
U.S. Representative
U.S. Representative
U.S. Representative |
1995-1997
1993-1995
1983-1993
1983-1987 |
| |
Burton
initially won a special election to fill a vacancy caused by the
death of her husband. Burton died while serving in office in 1987. |
| |
Bobbi
Fiedler (R)
Shirley N. Pettis (R) |
U.S.
Representative
U.S. Representative
|
1981-1987
1975-1979 |
| |
Pettis initially won a special election
to fill a vacancy caused by the death of her husband. |
| |
Yvonne
Brathwaite Burke (D)
Helen Gahagan Douglas (D)
Florence P. Kahn (R)
|
U.S.
Representative
U.S. Representative
U.S. Representative |
1973-1979
1945-1951
1925-1937 |
| |
Kahn
initially won a special election to fill a vacancy caused by the
death of her husband. |
| |
Mae
Ella Nolan (R) |
U.S.
Representative |
1922-1925 |
| |
Nolan
simultaneously won a special election to fill the unexpired term
caused by the death of her husband and a regular election. |
|
*When Senators Boxer And Feinstein were
elected, California became the first state to be represented
simultaneously by two women in the Senate; Kansas was the second
(Kassebaum and Frahm), and Maine the third (Collins and Snowe).
|
| Statewide
Elective Executives |
| |
Debra Bowen (D)
Kathleen
Connell (D)
Delaine Eastin (NP)
Kathleen Brown (D)
Elizabeth Whitney (D) |
Secretary of State
State
Controller
Superintendent of Public Instr.
State Treasurer
State Treasurer
|
2007-present
1995-2003
1995-2003
1991-1995
1987-1989 |
| |
Appointed
to fill a vacancy. |
| |
March
Fong Eu (D) |
Secretary
of State |
1975-1993 |
| |
Eu
was the first Asian American woman in the country elected statewide
to an executive post. |
| |
Ivy
Baker Priest (R) |
State
Treasurer |
1967-1974 |
